Betty Compas

Funeral for Betty Jean Compas will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Matthew's Catholic Church in Alton, Ill. The Rev. Dave Schmidt will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Lawn Memory Gardens in Bethalto, Ill.

Friends may call today from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Elias Smith Funeral Home in Alton.

Compas, 73, died Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at Woodland Manor Nursing Home in St. Louis.

She was born Oct. 22, 1928, at Blodgett, Mo., daughter of Earnie and Edna Moore Rister. She and Elmer Joseph Compas were married April 20, 1946, in Cape Girardeau. He died Feb. 26, 1992.

Compas was a member of St. Matthew's Church and VFW Ladies Auxiliary.

Survivors include a son, Stephen Compas of St. Louis; three sisters, Margaret McPherson of Benton, Mo., Glenda Evans and Brenda Jones of Blodgett; and four grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers.